Pinky Pruitt Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Pinky Pruitt Barn is a historic barn on the south side of Arkansas Highway 14, just west of St. It is a single-crib structure stories in height, built out of rough-hewn logs, with a stone pier foundation.”
Wikipedia article Pinky Pruitt Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Stone County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pruitt, Pinky, Barn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. AR 14, St. James, 72560
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. building
Also known as. Stone County MRA
District. District 6
National Register reference number. 85002239 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

104 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Pinky Pruitt Barn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,024 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 53 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	53
Debris and open burning	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Arkansas Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Stone County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Pinky Pruitt Barn: 6 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Canard-Cajun	Clay, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Producer
E.B.Matheson	Iron	Producer
Stone Produducts Corp.Quarry	Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown	Bedded limestone - Kimmswick formation
Williamson Property	Limestone, High Calcium	Unknown	Bedded limestone
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unk	Stone	Producer
Unk	Stone	Producer
A.T.Foster Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence
Enos-Lindsey Cave Prospect	Manganese	Past Producer	1939

Every working recorded in Stone County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Davis Barn	1.8 miles	1985
Henry Copeland House	2.2 miles	1985
John Bettis House	2.3 miles	1985
Zachariah Ford House	3.9 miles	1985
H. J. Doughtery House	4.3 miles	1985
Thomas E. Hess House	4.4 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002239 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Stone County	All 58 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.